The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program. October 11, 2010

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1 The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program October 11, 2010

2 What is it? A response to the calls from L Aquila (AFSI) and Pittsburgh (G 20) to develop a multilateraltrust fund to scale-up long-term and structural agricultural and food security assistance to low income countries A mechanism to make coordinated donor support more predictable for strategic & innovative country-led agricultural and food security plans susceptible of producing results, produced through existing aid effectiveness measures

3 What is it NOT? GAFSP is NOT a World Bank-led Program Is NOT emergency assistance GAFSP is NOT a Vertical Fund GAFSP does NOT produce ag/fs strategies It does NOT have a big dedicated staff, large overheads, or lending objectives that are distinct from those of existing donor coordination/country-leadership mechanisms such as CAADP or SWAPs.

4 The desired approach Respect the aid effectiveness principles agreed in Accra country-led programs based on harmonization and alignment Reinforce and not duplicate existing efforts to facilitate a strategic and inclusive approach Ensure that countries that have truly made the effort to devise high-quality and inclusive agriculture and food plans under initiatives such as CAADP get support Leverage host Gov t and bilateral assistance Rapid disbursement of funds Facilitate participation of CSOs and private sector

5 How it works: Governance A Financial Intermediary Fund (i.e. checking account) at the World Bank, as Trustee A Steering Committee (SC) as decision-making body composed of donors and recipient reps in equal numbers as voting members, and the potential supervising entities (SE)--IFAD, WBG, other MDBs, FAO and WFP--andCSOs reps as fully participating but non-voting members Appraisal and supervision is provided by the SEs following own regular procedures A small Coordination Unit at the WB keeps the process running, with separation of the Trustee role from the potential Supervising Entity roles of IBRD and IFC

6 How it works: independent TAC The TechnicalAdvisory Committee (TAC) is composed of technical specialists independent of SEs/WB who provide due diligence to the SC following an elaborate Terms of Reference and scoring template TAC ranks proposals according to: Country Need (12.5%), Policy environment (12.5%), Country Readiness (25%), Proposal Readiness (50%) The TAC does not identify, appraise, or supervise projects; these tasks are done by the concerned Supervising Entityusing its regular procedures and governance.

7 How it works: Funding Present donors are: USA, Canada, Spain, Korea, Gates Foundation, and Ireland: one more donor to be announced September 21 st. Recipient regional reps are: Senegal, Sierra Leone, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Haiti, and Yemen Donors will earmark funds to either a public sector window for investments and technical assistance, or a private sector window for debt and equity investments in private firms The private sector window ($100m) is managed by International Finance Corporation who will submit annual investment plans to the Steering Committee

8 Who is eligible Public Sector Window Low income countries (IDA) Regional entities (e.g. ECOWAS) Clear & inclusive agriculture strategies Conducive policy environment Own budget commitments Tech Assistance Under the Public Window Specialized technical agencies (centers of excellence) Proposals aligned to SC requests High quality & cost effective services Private Sector Window Private sector firms in eligible countries Aligned business activities Reasonable financial health Equity investment exit options

9 How it works: Operationalization National governments and regional organizations submit proposals on the basis of calls from the SC The SC allocates an envelope by country and designates a Supervising Entity to take forward Supervising entities appraisecountry-led projects following standard procedures and safeguards The coordination unit consolidates results Supervising Entities are responsible for reportingusing a joint monitoring and evaluation results framework Pledges to date are $914 million over first 3 years with about $366 million received so far for the Public Window and $47 for the just launched Private Window

10 Allocations to date $224m + $11m admin fees allocated June 21 to: Bangladesh($50m), improved seed varieties and better water management techniques, via WB and FAO Haiti($35m), improving access to seeds, fertilizers and technology, via IDB and WB Rwanda($50m), reduce hillside erosion and bolster productivity, via WB Sierra Leone ($50m), collective action for commercialization of smallholder famers and farm management training, via IFAD Togo($39m), affordable credit and better access to technology, via IFAD and WB

11 Info and next steps See soon to be: Current Call expired midnight October 1 TAC will score, rank proposals 21 countries submitted $930 million in proposals to Public Window There is $130 m in kitty to allocate for Public Window Allocation meeting of SC is Nov. 3-4 Fundraising by SC continues at strong pace Further $160-$280 m very likely in kitty by March 31, 2011.